Winners of the Huygens Image Contest 2018

As in past years, we've received many high quality images and movies for the Huygens Image Contest 2018, and again our job to select the winners was a challenging one. We like to thank all the participants for submitting their images for this contest.

After careful consideration, we made the decision to award the first prize to Dr. Outi Paloheimo from the Tampere Imaging Facility, University of Tampere, Finland. Mrs. Outi Paloheimo submitted a Huygens deconvolved Zeiss LSM780 confocal image of high quality that is Christmas card ready material. The image, which is displayed below and will appear on our 2018 Christmas card, represents Human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (heart cells) showing filamentous actin and nuclei. We congratulate Outi with winning an ASUS Chromebook.
All other participants will receive a bluetooth speaker for listening to their favorite Christmas music.

1st Prize: Dr. Outi Paloheimo. Tampere Imaging Facility, University of Tampere, Finland. Special thanks to the Heart Group, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere for providing the cells.

2nd Prize: Dr. Howard Vindin, Cell Biology Group, The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Australia. Special thanks also to Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis, ACMM, University of Sydney.

Again, a big thanks to the participants for making this Huygens Image Contest into a great success. All participants will receive a small gift as a token of our appreciation for joining the contest.
We wish you all nice holidays and a happy 2019, and hope you will join the next years Huygens Image Contest. Images and movies for contests can be submitted all year through.